On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![Why Black Lives in Britain Matter]()
Why Black Lives in Britain Matter
In the rush to address inequality and prejudice, Britain has followed the lead of America. We absorb its arguments and follow its agenda. Tomiwa Owolade asks if we are looking in the wrong place? To build a more effective anti-racist agenda we must acknowledge the differences exist Britain and America.
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![Ethical Matters in Time and Space: 60 Years of Doctor Who]()
Ethical Matters in Time and Space: 60 Years of Doctor Who
On 23 November 1963 the first episode of Doctor Who aired on the BBC. Where was the story set? Everywhere. When was is set? Anytime. What were the possibilities within the show? All possibilities. Join broadcaster and cultural historian Matthew Sweet alongside Christel Dee, author and presenter of Doctor Who: The Fan Show, as we celebrate The Doctor, their companions, and what may be the greatest show on, and off, Earth.
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![The Haunted Landscape 2023: Witchcraft, Ritual and the Supernatural]()
The Haunted Landscape 2023: Witchcraft, Ritual and the Supernatural
It’s getting darker. Join the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall as we explore the Haunted Landscape – our annual gathering of witchcraft, folklore, ghosts, and fairies from the British Isles.
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![Grassroots Protest: Activism from Below]()
Grassroots Protest: Activism from Below
Change begins from below. Conway Hall and Bloomsbury Festival host two grassroots activists as they describe their protests and outcomes of their campaigning. Leila Hassan and Andy Worthington discuss marching against racism in the 1980s, protesting the New Cross Fire murders, seeking justice for British Guantanamo detainees and much more.
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![She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World]()
She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World
Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones, and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao, and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. In this talk, activists Sorcha Thomson and Marral Shamshiri set the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the world.
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![Spirit of Place: Landscape and Self]()
Spirit of Place: Landscape and Self
When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? How does our own vision of the landscape reflect – and be affected by – art and literature? Authors Will Ashon and Dr Susan Owens explore what we see in the British landscape and how place and history shape us.
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![Thinking in Pictures: Adventures in Trying to be Smart]()
Thinking in Pictures: Adventures in Trying to be Smart
Why think in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. Using illustrations and photographs, Michael Blastland shows how pictures can help put ideas to the test, making them vivid, showing them in action.
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![Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?]()
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
Taking a humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Daniel Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better.
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![Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London]()
Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
For centuries London has been the captial of utopian thought. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris, Extinction Rebellion protestors and the queen of Claremont Road.
